Luuk de Jong – It Was A Terrible Debut For Me

Written by Dr. Ed Harrison

7:46pm Saturday, February 1st, 2014

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Luuk de Jong started the second half in today’s third disaster in a row against Sunderland, and given he has not had much playing time in Germany he looked decent, and certainly showed some good movement at times.

Luuk de Jong – terrible debut And Luuk knew all about what this game meant to fans, and in his first interview after signing last week, he had said if Newcastle lost the game the players would not be able to walk the streets – so at least he knew how important the game was.

This is what Luuk said on the Newcastle web-site after the game today:

“I’m happy to be here and to play but it is not the beginning I hoped for. I wanted to win this game. “I was told how big it is for the Club and the fans and now I’ve seen it for myself.”

“I had a couple of chances and I expect myself to finish better there. I’m not satisfied with that.” “Sometimes I thought I did OK, made some good runs and got the ball but just couldn’t get a good shot away when I came back inside.”

“I will keep working on that and my goals will come.” “We are really disappointed.” “We spoke before about what the game meant, how we had to start and what we had to do but we didn’t play football today.”

“Our strength is playing football. I watched the Norwich game in midweek and you could see how good we were, but today we just didn’t get going. Sunderland played well at times though and got the goals.”

“It’s a terrible debut for me – a really bad moment and I’m so disappointed.” “We have a big week ahead, We need to work hard as a team and be prepared for Chelsea.”

It’s good that we have got 37 points, so we are not in any relegation trouble.

That’s true isn’t it?

And we’d like to see Luuk get some playing time, so he can get his sharpness back, and at times he looked good this afternoon, in what was a terrible game to make his debut in.

Newcastle players have to take responsibility for another insipid performance against Sunderland , and there was no passion or guts, and not much skill either.

The Newcastle fans need see guts and spirit at Chelsea next Saturday afternoon – nothing less than that will be good enough – although with the skills we currently have in the side, we are unlikely to come away with anything from Stamford Bridge.

Newcastle can still make this into a good season – we just need to forget about all the Sunderland defeats – that’s all.

We’d just love to see Luuk become a success at Newcastle, and we also thought that Sylvain Marveaux looked good when he came on in the second half – and Sylvain needs to be given a chance too.

how can anyone say he will do well? He looked awful today. You can’t blame match fitness because he started all 3 or 4 of Monchengladbach’s friendlies during the winter break in January. He looks poor, hasn’t scored a league goal in nearly a year, is slow, looks quite cumbersome, and throw lack of confidence in there too…..awful decision to bring him here

A lot of bloggers are saying why didn’t De Yong start & leave Strolla on the bench. Fact is he has only played just over an hour all season – perhaps that’s why. Strolla has a good record against the Mackems up to last three encounters. Need to get LDY proper match fit & get Cisse’s confidence back. Remy has got the goals but he doesn’t want to play for us (for the second time) so let’s concentrate on those who want to play for this football club

Well a few hours since the game thought is give meself a chance to calm down but that just hasn’t happened Today was simply appualing

JFK and the Fat man to f**king gutless to face there paying public after a truly disgusting window in which they shafted the club and the fans Pardews tactics had us starting far to negative, but except Marv and De Jong on the bench we really do have f**k all attacking options, btw TDS today is exactly what i was trying to get across to you with the arguement that our squad really has no strength in depth

As for the players F**king hell hang your heads in shame, absolutely disgusting display, I don’t care how we were set up there’s no tactical excuse for not being able to beat the first man on set pieces, running in to each other, playing for themselves, not being able to make 5-6 yards passes and generally being able to play the most basic of football, that’s one part if Pardews interview i did agree with, they need to get back to basics

Apart from Willo Tiote Marv Sammy (who was quiet but done better than most when he did get on the ball) maybe Taylor the rest were abysmal every single one of them

Krul, he flapped, he came out on corners and missed, his distribution was awful and his saves were parried weakly back into our own box

Anita was awful, tackling, positioning, passing all of it woeful

Santon, did he even train this week? Worst display ever seen from that lad

Debuchy looked unbelievably frustrated was offered no cover and when he did get to go forward he had absolutely no support or options, no one showing for the ball and then just lost his head and started putting in rash challenges

Sissoko terrible ran himself into trouble all day, dithered on the ball, poor passing awful shooting and probably blocked more of our shots than O’Shea and Brown combined

HBA, if this is the man to fill Cabayes shoes were f**ked, indecisive, poor passing, couldn’t beat a man and when he shifted left Bardsley had him in his pocket for the rest of the game

Shola, did he even move today? Awful stuff, poor weak shots and missed a sitter of a header

Every single person involved in our transfer dealings and today’s game should be f**king disgusted with themselves

From the short time I saw him I think that he is only good passer and jumper that is very important with cooperating with Loic Remy.Hid dribbling skills and speed I think that are doubtful.For the next game Santon and Anita out and Marveaux and Dummet in.And most importantly because we are without our best player Remy in the next two games we must play defensive to fight for 2 points.Otherwise we are in danger for taking 0 points.

The only glimmer of hope for me is the fact we aint signing players and trying to get loan deals in. Its just he thing the fat man would do before he sells,he wouldnt want to sell and leave expensive assets behind would he. Not when he can trouser the money first.

Sunderland outclassed us today. There’s no doubt we missed Cabaye, Remy and Gouffran today. Not only in terms of quality but in work rate as well. One of the reasons why we have been quite successful this season is because of the team’s work ethic. However one of the main problems with our squad is that the players that come in rarely put in the same amount of effort. The likes of Ameobi and Ben Arfa are quite lazy. For all the people on here who are always shouting for Ben Arfa to start games, we saw to day why he hasn’t been a regular starter this season. He’s far too inconsistent and when he’s not on form it’s like playing with 10 men

As for De Jong, he looks like his confidence is lower than Cisse’s. The TV got a close up of him coming on and he looked like a scared rabbit. He had chances to shoot and dwelled. The last thing we need is to nurse a player through a crisis of confidence for half a season.

He said in an interview on the 30th/31 cannot remember which that that had to alter the style of play due to Cabaye going. Now, why the F**k do you need to alter the style of play and go to hoof balling you twat? stick Marveaux in number 10 and Ben Arfa on the Right Winger and they could exchange roles in game constantly which would be a great partnership. Why could we not play the football we played at Norwich, even Luuk De Jong admitted above in his post-match interview.

To Pardew lovers, it is the managers duty to set-up the team tactics, cohesion, training, positioning. It seems to me all the Pardew lovers that love it up the bum from him are saying that the players are responsible for the tactics, positioning, hoof ball. cohesion. I don’t know if you lot are trying to be sarcastic or just bitter mackems in disguise, its just disgusting how some people are still pro-ashley and especially pro-Pardew.

Looking at the startup, who picked it Pardew or the players?? come on some Pardew lover tell me? oh right DING DING DING DING, it was the Manager Alan Pardew, do you know why because HE IS THE MANAGER.

Why was Steven Taylor playing ahead of Mbiwa in the starting line up the past 2 games, who picked him??? DING DING DING DING, correct it was the MANAGER Pardew. Why did Shola Ameobi get full 90min show when he stop trying after the first 10min?? DING DING DING DING, correct It was Pardews decision, why you ask? because he IS THE MANAGER. Why did Marveaux our most creative player come on the last 12min to play Left Wing???? DING DING DING DING, correct because it was Pardew’s decision as HE IS THE MANAGER.

So now Pardew lovers or mackems in disguise, either f**k off this blog and admit you are a mackem in disguise or admit you been foolish and join the rest of the fans to get these Circus clowns out of our beloved club.

Simple fact is if a decent offer is made for any of our team the fat man will sell and try and get a cheap replacement from france. Usually people who have fallen out with there team/out of contract/up for murder-rape-etc or have just came back from a near career ending injury. The team dont matter were just cheap advertising and a way for him to make cash,all he wants is to stay in the league.

can i just ask the people on here who feel that pardew is not at fault for this shambles of a team that has taken 3 yes 3 YEARS to assemble – what is his line of duty? – what is he responsible for? ( if anything) what does he do for his 1/2 M a year wages , and what has he done to deserve his F”CKING obscene 8 year contract? — and take your time.

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